Chapter 289 Education-oriented

Jia Rudao said lightly: "It's okay, it's just a medal, the master just holds it." ”

Yang Lian Zhenjia thanked and said: "Amitabha, the poor monk is better than obeying his fate." ”

"Yes, Jia Xuan."

"It's coming." Jia preached, who was waiting outside the house,

"Sending off guests."

"Yes, Xiangye." Jia Xuan stretched out his hand and gestured to Yang Lian Zhenjia, "Master, please." ”

When he went out, Yang Lian Zhenjia quickly handed Jia Xuan a silver ticket and said, "Lord Steward, it's a small meaning, it's not a respect, please smile." ”

Jia Xuan personally opened the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion: "Master go slowly." ”

Yang Lian Zhenjia said with a smile: "Chief, please come back, see you next year." ”

Jia Xuan opened the silver ticket and looked at it, and smiled knowingly, this is a silver ticket with a face value of 10,000 taels, issued by the Great Song Dynasty Royal Silver Village, Jia Xuan was in a good mood, and when he raised his eyes to look out, Yang Lian Zhenjia had disappeared into the snowy night, where was there still half a trace,

The admission of the second batch of new students of Lin'an University and the first batch of cadets of Lin'an Military University was completed at the end of November, and although the total number of students was less than a fraction of that of an ordinary local university in later generations, the degree of attention it received was even greater.

If the first enrollment of Lin'an University a few months ago had a great impact on the students who came to participate in the imperial examination, then this enrollment can be said to have alarmed the entire Lin'an City, most Lin'an families are proud that their children can be admitted to the two universities, especially after the publicity of Lin'an newspapers such as the Great Song Dynasty Royal Newspaper, there are also many applicants from the surrounding areas of Lin'an, and the farthest people are even from the distant Chengdu Mansion.

Although neither university is part of the newly established Ministry of Education and Health, I still ordered that Jiang Wanli's Ministry of Education be involved in the enrollment process throughout the process, so as to solve the problem of insufficient manpower in the enrollment of the two universities, and to prepare for the opening of other schools in the future.

As for the direction of education in the whole country, my plan is to set it according to the posterity's primary, secondary and primary education systems, which is also one of the main tasks of the Ministry of Education and Health in the future.

On the last afternoon of November in the first year of Xianchun, I summoned Shang Shujiang Wanli of the Ministry of Education, He Ji and Shen Yiqiu, president and vice president of Lin'an University, Shi Yanzhi, president of Military University, and Quan Jue, who is also president of the Royal Academy of Sciences, in the imperial study.

"See Your Majesty."

"No courtesy, five Aiqing, sit down and talk."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am calling you here today to talk about the future education of our dynasty, the five of you can be said to be the leaders of our dynasty's education circles, and education is the foundation of our dynasty's future, the improvement of the quality of the whole people and the popularization of all kinds of talents is the key to the development of one generation after another, which requires education to play a role, and it is also the fundamental value of education, so the burden on your body is very heavy, I think it is no less than the military affairs and the government affairs of the two houses, so to speak, the future of our dynasty is on a few of you."

"Your Majesty, rest assured, the ministers will do their best."

I looked at the five of them and said with a smile: "The so-called education is the whole process of cultivating the new generation to prepare for social life, and it is also the key link in the inheritance and development of the production experience of human societyA hundred flowers blooming is the foundation of education. ”

Jiang Wanli, He Ji and others themselves have the experience of college presidents, and they are very clear about the traditional academy model, Jiang Wanli asked: "Your Majesty, will my future education system still be based on the academy?" ”

I shook my head and said: "No, for my future education direction, its content is to shift to the aspect of natural science, this I have decided, you don't need to doubt, of course, I don't mean to say that traditional culture is bad, traditional culture needs to be inherited, it needs to be carried forward, and it should also adapt to the development of the times, but in order to make me prosperous and establish the immortal foundation of my Great Song Dynasty, we must reach a leading position in natural science, which requires the vigorous promotion of the Ministry of Education, which is also the purpose of my establishment of the Ministry of Education. The new education system will be dominated by new types of schools, for example, in the future, various universities represented by Lin'an University will gradually replace the original Taixue and Guozixue, and I plan to set up three levels of schools in our country from next year, large, middle, and small, all of which will focus on the subjects taught at Lin'an University, and strive to popularize them within 10 to 20 years. ”

Jiang Wanli asked again: "Your Majesty, the university already has a ready-made model, what about the primary and secondary schools." ”

"Aiqing, don't worry, everyone, you listen to me carefully while drinking tea." I also took a sip of tea and said, "You all know the university, at present we have two Lin'an University and a military university, but this is far from enough, from next year, according to the needs of development, we will successively establish various colleges with stronger specialization in our country, for example, there are very few professors who can be qualified for natural science subjects in our country, so the Ministry of Education should first set up a special teacher training college, responsible for training teachers and professors in various subjects, and for example, if the doctor is insufficient, then a special medical college can also be established. Similar to the medical faculty of Lin'an University, which is responsible for training doctors in our dynasty, that is, Lang Chinese medicine officials, these colleges can be established in Lin'an, as needed, and can also be established in various roads and provinces outside Lin'an, and they are not completely concentrated in Lin'an, which is similar to the academies in various places in our dynasty. ”

"Now I will talk about primary and secondary schools, for education, I mean to let the people of the dynasty begin to accept from an early age, when the child is six or seven years old, you can enter the primary school to study, the main content of primary school students to learn is literacy, numeracy and understand the basic knowledge of various natural sciences, for example, in mathematics, to learn the simplest addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, to know the common Hsieh number recording method, etc., to middle school, to learn a deeper basic knowledge, that is, to lay a good foundation for entering the university, ready." I saw that everyone didn't understand very well, so I thought about it and said, "In this way, I take the traditional teaching that everyone is familiar with as an example, primary school students should start from literacy, and be able to make simple sentence-making conversations, and then they should be able to write some small articles, be able to recite simple poems and songs, and when they reach middle school, they are required to be able to write general strategies proficiently, and after going to university, they will be studied by major, some people can specialize in poetry, some people can specialize in ancient times, etc., this is the meaning of primary and secondary schools, do you understand?" ”

Jiang Wanli nodded and said: "Your Majesty, the minister understands, in this way, a ladder-like student structure can be formed, with the most primary school students who can read and write, and the least number of college students who conduct specialized research. ”

"Well, Aiqing is right, first of all, I plan to start from the area at the level of the state capital, and then develop at the county level and townships, and the school will start from the two ends, that is, the university and the primary school, and then develop into the middle school, Jiang Aiqing, this specific work will be handed over to your Ministry of Education."

"Yes, Your Majesty, the ministers obey." JIANG Wanlidao,

I then said to Shi Yanzhi: "The military university will study under the Ministry of Education, and it will be subordinate to the Military Affairs Academy for the time being." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Shi Yanzhi responded,

Shen Yiqiu said: "Your Majesty, whether the imperial examination will be retained." ”

"Traditional education such as imperial examinations and academies will be retained."

He Jidao: "Your Majesty, to open all kinds of schools across the country, there should be two main problems at present, one is the problem of funding, and the other is the problem of teachers, how does Your Majesty plan these two points. ”

"He Aiqing said well, funding and teachers are the two major difficulties in running a school, for the school's funds, I will let the household department allocate a special fund to the Ministry of Education for overall arrangement, in the future, I plan to according to the total amount of annual national taxes, extract a certain proportion as education expenses, at the same time, let the local government think to raise a part of the funds, can also let the benevolent private funds to run the school, in the poor remote mountainous areas, but also through the Red Cross, open hope schools, in short, the opening of primary and secondary schools, is mainly based on the imperial court, supplemented by the locality, An important matter for the participation of the whole people, we will take universal education as the basic national policy of our dynasty for a long time, first of all, we will start with the universal primary school, as for teachers, from the current situation, it is even more difficult, although there are many literati in our dynasty, but there are too few people who are proficient in natural sciences, what do you suggest? ”

He Ji said: "Your Majesty, there are a lot of academies in my dynasty today, can you recruit from these places." ”

"Of course you can, it's just that there is a lack of gentlemen and professors in the academy who are proficient in natural sciences."

Shen Yiqiu said: "Your Majesty, there are two ways for ministers. ”

"Aiqing, please speak."

"Your Majesty, first of all, you can let the local government select young talents who are interested in education in the local area, and send them to Lin'an University, and the university will handle short-term training courses, which is similar to the training method adopted by the Red Cross. The second is the opening of the Teachers College, which His Majesty mentioned earlier, and Jiang Shangshu is invited to make it the primary event of the Ministry of Education. ”

"Well, it's feasible, by the way, He Aiqing."

"The minister is here."

"You take the time to tell Jiang Aiqing about the situation of the gentlemen of Lin'an University, and Jiang Aiqing can learn from it, and then formulate the standard of the gentlemen and professors at all levels of our court in the future, so that the gentlemen who are interested in education have no worries about food and clothing, and let them know that their treatment will refer to the officials of our court."

"Yes, I obey." He Ji and Jiang Wanli said at the same time,